Monday, June 27, 2011

Take Sex Out of Our Marriage Discussion

New Exclusive Audio Chat w/ Josh Rosenzweig,VP Programming at Here Media & the timely move to increase production in New York as gay marriage passes...more@OUTTAKE VOICES™

Gay Marriage finally passing in New York is definitelya game-changer. When Governor Andrew Cuomoannounced that gay marriage had passed by a voteof 33-29 Friday night he used the proper language.He never used the religious right’s term “same-sexmarriage”. We must take “sex” out of our marriagediscussion. Use the terms “gay marriage”, “marriageequality” or “same-gender marriage”. To expediteequality for our LGBT community understandlanguage & know that every time our opponents hearthe word ‘sex’ a red flag goes up & their minds close.Note that coverage by mainstream media outlets alluse the term ‘same-sex’ to stir the pot. Just thinkabout the language we use. Gay marriage on thefederal level will be achieved when our opponentsunderstand that marriage equality is a spiritual truth& it is beyond sex. Updated to Come…:)Exclusive Audio Chat with Kathleen Turnerabout her new film The Perfect Family that dealsw/ LGBT family & religious issues. Check it OUT@ OUTTAKE VOICES™

1 Comments:

This is great news about New York becoming the sixth state to pass gay marriage. This comes after a recent Gallup Poll showed Americans favor gay marriage by 53% which demonstrates that people want the government out of our personal lives. We will not let government take away human rights on any level. Marriage equality is a spiritual truth and it is beyond sex. Now the problem is how do we get it to the federal level? We have to get control of our language again. The language is being manipulated. It has been since the creation of language, probably since the creation of visual pictures. It gets you to focus on one subject. When you use the term ‘same-sex marriages’ what do you see? You see either 2 penises going down the aisle or 2 vaginas or whatever but you don’t see a relationship and that’s by design. That’s how the religious right uses the language to pervert the concept. Marriage is not about sex. It’s about relationships and relationships do entail a very important import of physical life which is the quality of sexual relationships but that is only a fraction of what we have to discuss. We have to take the discussion away from the religious right and turn the language back to what it is. It’s about gender. Gender equality, gender process, in the workplace, in the marriage place, in teaching, in all of these levels. We have to be careful how we use our language. Get control of the word and then you have control of how people will view the issue.